Amy B. Monahan

N226 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-624-1261

monahan@umn.edu

Johns Hopkins University, B.A.
Duke University, J.D.

Professor Amy B. Monahan joined the Law School faculty in Fall 2009, after serving as a Visiting Professor during the 2008-09 academic year. She teaches and writes in the areas of federal taxation and employee benefits law. Her current research interests include employer-provided health care, health insurance regulation, and retirement plans.

Professor Monahan received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in International Studies, with university and departmental honors. She received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where she was the Managing Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. Following law school, she practiced with Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.

She has previously taught at Notre Dame Law School, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law from 2004-2009. Professor Monahan served as the Chair of the American Association of Law School's Section on Employee Benefits during 2008-09.

PUBLICATIONS Articles "Value-Based Mandated Health Benefits," 80 Colorado Law Review (forthcoming 2009). "Health Insurance Risk Pooling and Social Solidarity: A Response to Professor David Hyman," Conn. Ins. L. J. (2008) (symposium). "Pay or Play Laws, ERISA Preemption, and Potential Lessons from Massachusetts," 55 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1203 (2007). "Federalism, Federal Regulation, or Free Market? An Examination of Mandated Health Benefit Reform," 2007 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1361 (2007). "The Case for Federalizing Mandated Health Benefits," Admin. & Reg. L. News, Spring 2007, at 2. "The Promise and Peril of Ownership Society Health Care Policy," 80 Tul. L. Rev. 777 (2006). "Addressing the Problem of Impatients, Impulsives and Other Imperfect Actors in 401(k) Plans," 23 Va. Tax Rev. 471 (2004). "The Primacy of Democracy Over Natural Law in Irish Abortion Law: An Examination of the C Case," 9 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 275 (1998).

COURSES Tax I Employee Benefits Partnership Tax